wildcardjack:Ivo Shandor: wildcardjack: Really? $1.8 billion to settle something that was nothing more than mass hysteria and a few susceptible individuals?

I know, right? Didn't they ever watch fight club? They should have avoided the recalls entirely and just paid off the few people who actually experienced a problem.

I still suspect the driver on that one. There are crazy people in this world living in their own little fantasies, wishing to be victims and not wanting to go to work today.

I believe Toyota retroactively examined a number of incidents and determined that less than 5 of them were actual problems with the car, and that the bulk of them were driver error- and in at least one case, the driver did it on purpose and was charged with fraud.